Windows Grep Alternatives

Windows Grep is described as 'The program combines the power and flexibility of traditional command line grep utilities available on DOS, UNIX and other platforms with the ease of use of Microsoft Windows' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Windows Grep for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Chocolatey and Web-based apps. The best Windows Grep alternative is grepWin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Windows Grep are AstroGrep, SearchMyFiles, dnGREP and TextSeek.

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  1. DeskRule icon
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    Wherever you have files DeskRule can locate them. Search your hard disk, but also in mobile phones and cameras, zipfolders, FTP, OneDrive and all the other virtual shell folders.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Search and replace text and raw bytes in multiple files. Features include: multi-line text entry; full support for RegEx with syntax highlighting and match substitutions; built-in hex editor to replace bytes; wildcards and case-sensitivity; Unicode.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Batch RegEx icon
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    Replace, format, and extract text in multiple files using Regular Expressions. Perform GREP-like tasks including search and replace, RegEx substitutions, data extraction, and more! Built-in RegEx editors support color syntax highlighting and tips.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Search multiple strings occurrences simultaneously with the help of this piece of software that comes with support for regular expressions.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Search & Replace Master is a freeware. It looks through multiple files for a string or pattern and can also replace it with another string or pattern.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Multi String Replacer is a small and portable application that can be used to replace multiple strings at once. Its main functionality is String Swapping in which can be easily and quickly done. String swapping consists on replacing WordX with WordY and WordY with WordX.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Online String Swap, is a web page that can be used to replace multiple strings at once online in almost any web browser available out there!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Generate file list of all files with specific name pattern, extension, properties and attributes, as well as text and binary content by recursively scanning specified directories and searching for matching files. Copy and rename found files.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9.  1 like

    GUI to search recursively for text, using Ack, a grep like tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. Multiple Search and Replace is a powerful utility that can search and replace text in multiple files at the same time. It supports Text, Webpage, Microsoft Office, Rich Text Format, Open Text Format and Pdf files. Also it searches in compressed files.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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